The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-09-06
LINCOLN'S NOMINATION.
a CHESS PLAYERS QUICK PERceP-
1iOn TURNED THE SCALE.

An Incident Of the Republican National |
Convention of 1S6O-Deeisive Action at |
. Critical Moment-A Chess Player
Vantage.
HE. Enos. who was the close personal
friend and principal broker OF William ID
Vanderbilt, is one of the quiet men Oh the
Stock Exchange In the old days, when bent
on executing some OF the big deals OF his
mighty millionaire friend, he was, as he Is
now. unobtrusive and never posing. de Is
good deal prouder of the part his father, the
modest banker of an Ohio village, played In
politics than he is of the prominence anu the
ducats that he has won in Wall street
The elder Enos was a Wing OF TIE Old
school, and q little in advance OF his party,
always earnest and aggressive, sympathlnng
even with the Abolitionist apostles. DE lived
at Millersburg, and twenty-five or thirty
wears ago was widely known all over "hai
WAS then known as tine west as an accountants
of rare abilities and a chess player whom no
BODY could beat The preliminary canvass
of 1850 made him delegate to the RepuDil-
can National convention to nominate presi-
Dental candidate. He believed IN Chase;
ANYBODY TO beat Seward was satisfactory 70
him. Then came his capacity as an account
ant into play, and the powers OF memory
grouping and combination that the chess
board cultivates. were then OF rare use de
easily kept ahead of the cOuventlons CLERKS
i'm the tallying of votes and the relation OF
each addition 10 the result
A CRITICAL MOMENT.
Ohio had been called, though the vote was
not vet announced, when he suddenly leaped
| To his feet and whispered among his coli
| leagues that Lincoln lacked only two and
| half votes of having the nomination. The
| Others could scarce believe it, when ne urged
| unon his friend r.. NJ Corwin, son OF the
| famous statesman Tom COrwin, to change
their vote, to make Lincoln the nominee.
Corwin quickly acceded, and so did two
| others of the delegation, all joining In re-
quest to David K. Cartier, the Ohio chairman,
| IN hurry i'm the announcement Of the changed
| votes before the clerks should read the result.
The clerks were still busy adding up figures
when Chairman Cartier, himself scarcely re-
alizing the import of his message. announced
| that four Of his men were DESTROYS of having
their votes put down To Abraham Lincoln.
Then the four Ohio delegates began Juhi
loo Their shouts shook the building. Hur
rails for Lincoln swept over tue aSSembiage
Banker Robert EnoS, with his quick eye OF
chess player and sharp knack OF casting vi
totals. had caught the convention mapping
Lincoln was nominated.
Mr.. II. 4. Enos treasures as one of hi
choicest possessions the badge that his fathe
wore at the Chicago convention, and III M
scrap book is a worn old slip OF paper,
cliuping from The Chicago Tribune of Tia
day following the convention, which In al
, editorial paragraph, headed THE Fou
Votes" says this:
HOW IT WAS DONE.
@During the progress of the third ballot 10
president the steady increase OF Lincoln
vote raised the expectations of his friends Z
fever heat that he was about to receive tn
nomination. When the roll call was con
/ pleted hasty footing discovered that Lin
l coin Kicked but 81 votes OF election, the ba
lot staining: For Lincoln, 23l1I; Seward
80; scattering, 3i1S; necessary for q choic'
2;4 Before the vote was announced Mr..
e NJ Corwin, of the Ohio delegation, who Ia
voted for Governor Chase up to that time
and three other delegates-R- l.. EnOs, job
t A. Curley and Isaac Steese-changed the
votes to Lincoln, giving him majority
the whole convention and nominating hin
:, d. K. Cartier, chairman of the delegation
D announced the change of votes, and befol
d the secretary had time to foot up and al
nounce the result the vast audience bur
r forth simultaneously into irrepressible shout
e A deafening roar of applause arose from q
t immense multitude such as has never bee
e eoualed on the American continent nor SIM
IS the walls of Jericho were blown down.
Chairman Cartier, of the Ohio delegation
who is mentioned, was Chief Justice Day
l.. Cartier, of the supreme court of the ID
!. trict of Columbia, who died recently
d Washington. in his 18th year. Mr.. Enos q
% loved Dir. Lincoln's friendship, hut he new
T. accepted all Office. He died three years a.
b New York Times.